Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard

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Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard is a splendid example of Clayton's arrival as a master possessed of enviable and original technique and a kaleidoscopic imagination. — AllMusic, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Jul 2020
Catalogue No: 0892602
Label: Blue Note
Length: 75 minutes

Grammy Awards

63rd Awards (2021)

Nominee: Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Grammy Awards

63rd Awards (2021)

Nominee: Best Jazz Instrumental Album
AllMusic

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July 2020

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Gerald Clayton: Patience Patients

Work length10:59

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone), Gerald Clayton (piano), Logan Richardson (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

Gerald Clayton: A Light

Work length9:21

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone), Gerald Clayton (piano), Logan Richardson (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

Powell, B: Celia

Work length10:34

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Gerald Clayton (piano), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal))
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: The Village Vanguard, New York, NY

Gerald Clayton: Rejuvenation Agenda

Work length7:21

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone), Gerald Clayton (piano), Logan Richardson (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

Gerald Clayton: Envisionings

Work length11:03

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Logan Richardson (alto saxophone), Gerald Clayton (piano), Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

Robert Sour, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman: Body and Soul

Work length11:47

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Gerald Clayton (piano), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Marcus Gilmore (drums)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

Ellington: Take The Coltrane

Work length14:01

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Marcus Gilmore (drums), Joe Sanders (bass (vocal)), Gerald Clayton (piano), Logan Richardson (alto saxophone), Walter Smith III (tenor saxophone)
Recorded: 2019-04-28
Recording Venue: Village Vanguard

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Pianist Gerald Clayton is set to release his Blue Note Records debut Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard on July 10. Recorded at the legendary NYC jazz club with a quintet of longtime collaborators— Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Walter Smith III on tenor saxophone, Joe Sanders on bass, and Marcus Gilmore on drums—Happening spotlights Clayton’s layered identity as a leader. The quintet co-navigates four of Clayton’s original compositions including “Rejuvenation Agenda,” which is available to stream or download today, as well as Duke Ellington’s “Take the Coltrane.” Trio takes of Bud Powell’s “Celia” and the standard “Body and Soul” cast a mood that lingers long after the record ends.

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July 2020

Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard is a splendid example of Clayton's arrival as a master possessed of enviable and original technique and a kaleidoscopic imagination.

August 2020

[Clayton] has sometimes been criticised for being ‘seductively hip’ at playing more or less what you expect – this fine live set certainly confirms the hipness, but a captivating capacity to veer on and off the beaten track as well.

August 2020

Given that this thoroughly enthralling album—which also includes delightful explorations of Bud Powell’s “Ceilia” and Duke Ellington’s “Take The Coltrane”—finds Clayton at a new creative height as a stunning pianist, gifted composer and burgeoning bandleader, one hopes that Happening isn’t a document that in the future serves to remind listeners of vanishing jazz venues.

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